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David M. Sokol, Ph.D., professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present "The Life and Work of Otto Neumann" at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Room 1604 at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road.This free slide presentation and lecture is scheduled in conjunction with "Otto Neumann: Fidelity to the Human Form," an exhibition of nearly 40 works on paper by the 20th century German artist at Oakton's William A. Koehnline Gallery. The exhibition is free and open to the public until Oct. 25 during the hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays; and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays and Thursdays. The exhibition traces Neumann's artistic development and concentration on the human figure through two World Wars, internment in an isolation camp, the deaths of his wife and daughter, and poor health.
"Rather than living in the past, as so many of his contemporaries of the pre-war generation had done, he had never ceased to experiment as an artist," says Sokol.
Neumann experimented with a variety of art forms throughout his career, leaving behind an artistic legacy rich in subjects, styles, and technical processes. From his earliest woodcuts that relied heavily on German Expressionism and still-life watercolors that reflect the work of post-impressionists, to stylized abstractions of the human form influenced by biomorphic surrealism, Neumann continued to evolve as an artist until his death in 1975.
Sokol is the co-author of American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting and the author of American Decorative Arts and Old World Influences and numerous papers, articles, reviews, and exhibition catalogs. In addition to his many years of teaching, he has served as curator of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation in Oak Park (1974-77) and the Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston (1981-85).
For more information about this and other events scheduled at Oakton's William A. Koehnline Gallery, call Nathan Harpaz, curator, at (847) 635-2633 or visit www.oakton.edu.
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